Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
San Diego Chinese Historical Museum San Diego Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Gate. The Asian Pacific Thematic Historic District (APTHD) is a historic Chinatown in San Diego, California. It is an eight-block district adjacent to and in part overlapping with the Gaslamp Quarter. The district is bounded by ...
The Stingaree was a neighborhood in downtown San Diego from the boom of the 1880s until it was demolished during a vice eradication campaign of 1916. It was the site of the city's Chinatown . [ 1 ] Because of this, and it's working class origins, it had a reputation as the home to the city's "undesirables", including prostitutes , pimps , drug ...
In the 1860s, the first Chinese people moved to the downtown area. [19] In the 1870s, the Chinese were the primary fishermen in the area. [20] Beginning in the 1880s, a large number of Chinese began to move to San Diego, establishing a concentration; with up to 200 Chinese making up a minority of the 8,600 who lived in all of San Diego. [21]
Headquarters of the CCBA (a.k.a. Chinese Six Companies) in San Francisco, on Stockton Street The KMT maintains offices in some of the Chinatowns of the world, and its United States party headquarters are located in San Francisco's Chinatown, on Stockton Street, directly across from the Chinese Six Companies.
Originally formed in the 1860s, the Chinatown of Oakland – centering upon 8th Street and Webster Street – shares a long history as its counterpart in the city of San Francisco as Oakland's community remains one of the focal points of Chinese American heritage in the San Francisco Bay Area. Oakland's Chinatown relies less on tourism than the ...
L.A.'s San Gabriel Valley played a part. Las Vegas' Asian American population has grown more quickly than nearly any other population in the last few years. L.A.'s San Gabriel Valley played a part.
SDHL # [1] Landmark name [2] Image Address [2] Designation Date [2] Description [3]; 1: El Prado Area: Balboa Park: 9/7/1967 Long, wide promenade running through the center of Balboa Park, lined with Spanish Revival buildings including the Museum of Us, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the Natural History Museum, the Fleet Science Center, and the Timken Museum of Art
Kogetsu-Do has a long history in Fresno’s Chinatown. This picture from 1920 shows Sugimatsu Ikeda, grandfather, Sakino Ikeda, grandmother, and Roy Ikeda, uncle of its current owner, Lynn Ikeda.